Actually Katrina was really about the stupidity of the Federal Government not properly maintaining the Federal levees. Had the levees held like they were supposed to Katrina would have been a minor event for NOLA.
Politicians don't like to spend money on non sexy infrastructure like storm drain. Public likes to see newly paved streets. This is what happens.
Katrina is really more about stupidity of building New Orleans.
When you build a levee at ~33ft in the '20s-'30s, there isn't much that can be done to keep it at 33ft, especially when the surrounding area is sinking and stretching further out into the Gulf due to erosion.Actually Katrina was really about the stupidity of the Federal Government not properly maintaining the Federal levees. Had the levees held like they were supposed to Katrina would have been a minor event for NOLA.
Freaking Verizon drooped the weather channel. Loved watching them during big storms.
The storm has stalled, so it's not going anywhere for a few days. This is essentially what was predicted. The loop was always a high uncertainty event, and not all that important relative to how far inland it stalls. Harvey is a large storm, so its precise location is secondary to the fact that it's stalling over the same cities regardless. It's going to be like a college sit-in for the next 5 days.Is it just me or has the storm kinda not gone in the direction they anticipated? Originally the path of the storm was to do a loop going towards houston and then going out to the gulf, but based on what I'm seeing it's almost like it's going towards San Antonio?
I guess Pecan Lodge is now the new best in the state
So...it's going to smell like beer, pot and a gym locker room combined?It's going to be like a college sit-in for the next 5 days.
I want to try Cattleack that's near me (in Addison / Farmers Branch I think?).Never been. I guess my #1 is City Market, over in Luling. It's funny, there is a BBQ joint called Luling City Market in Houston that's supposed to be awful, and every time I bring up City Market people tell me how lousy the place is because they think I'm talking about Luling City Market.
Jesus these Gulf storms are just scary in that a depression can morph into a cat 4 in just over a day.
Well we've got a band that dropping at a rate of 6in/hour.
We are at 6.92 inches and it's gone up 1.5in in 15 minutes. ....
Yeap, shit just got real yo. We're getting so much downpour that our street is already flooded in less than 20 minutes. It's most likely because it just can't keep up with distributing the water quick enough - so hopefully we get a pause to get some of it out of here before it floods my house....
Hope you guys sand bagged the place well.
I've gotten 3.37in since midnight.... Really need to have this rain band move off.got about an hour of some pretty good thunder here in downtown houston but other than that this has been a bunch of nothing for me. southwest and north sides of town have gotten hammered pretty god thought.
#blueshed
So far, this does not look like a Katrina type event. But that was the wind, now comes the massive flooding. I work with loans in flood zones, so I expect we will see come claims.